- EFF: Congress Must Not Fast Track TPP to Ratification
- Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade—"Why are the contents of a major US-led trade deal being deliberately kept from the American people?"
- Trans-Pacific Partnership Takes Legal Authority Away from Domestic Courts
- Registrars Clash at Verisign Over Seized "Pirate" Site Domains
- Gmail Stays Up as Google Rejects Microsoft DMCA Takedown Notice
- File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot
- Time Warner Left Bruised in Fee Battle With CBS—"The cable company lost 306,000 television subscribers in the third quarter, hurt by a contract dispute that resulted in a blackout of CBS programming." NYT
- Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle—For those who live in Seattle and want better ISP service (among other things), you can opt to support McGinn. WaPo
- Why your Internet service provider wants to nix all-you-can-eat data buffets
- The 'Cheap' iPhone Isn't Selling Because It Doesn't Make Anyone Jealous
- No, Apple's Not Trying to "Bust Your Phone"
- How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users
- Creative Commons co-founder accuses Apple of censoring support forum posts
- Lessig: On the pathological way Apple deals with its customers
- This patent reform bill might actually pass. Here's what's in it. WaPo
- Patent office to Congress: Please let us invalidate more bad patents WaPo
- Chief Judge Of Patent Court Compares Killing Bad Patents To Genocide
- Microsoft supports USPTO's continued efforts to improve patent system
- Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned "Rockstar" sues Google—"Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents, and has launched a major attack."
- Patent troll asks judge for gag order to silence opponent—"Lumen View's lawyer says that its $50,000 demand must be kept secret."
- Blast from the Past: IBM Files Application to Patent The Patent Process
- The Witcher 3 100% DRM Free on PC: An Interview with CDP RED
- Copyright Block Removed On TotalBiscuit's Day One: Garry's Incident Review
- Thousands Of Idiots Download GTA V PC Installer, Guess What Happened Next!
- Sony Explains Why Its PlayStation 4 Costs $1,845 In Brazil—"Of the $1,845 price, 63 percent goes toward paying import taxes that are imposed on the PlayStation 4 when it's imported to Brazil, Sony says."
- Gaming Media Defend Xbox One's Higher Price, Lower Resolution
- Why Watson is key to IBM's future
- IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
- Was IBM's Watson a Publicity Stunt From the Start?—"For the supercomputer's next trick, it will solve all your healthcare woes."
- Rip-Off: How Private-Sector Health Costs Are Killing the American Dream
- Special Investigation: How Insurers Are Hiding Obamacare Benefits From Customers
- Obamacare polls: Americans want to reform the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it
- Under Health Care Act, Millions Eligible for Free Policies—"Federal subsidies will pay the entire monthly cost of some plans being offered in the online marketplaces, a surprising figure that has not gotten much attention, in part because the zero-premium plans come with serious trade-offs." NYT
- This Is Why We Need Obamacare—"Lost in the debate over website glitches and broken promises made by President Obama are people's lives. Consider this 47-year-old Oregon truck driver." NYT
- The Uproar Over Insurance 'Cancellation' Letters—"The so-called cancellation letters waved around at today's hearing were simply notices that policies would have to be upgraded or changed." NYT
- That Florida woman's canceled Blue Cross policy? It's junk insurance.
- Tallying Obamacare's Winners and Losers—"Only 3 percent of the population are likely to lose their current insurance policies and pay higher premiums because of Obamacare."
- The Lesson of Obamacare: Sabotage Works
- Bill Moyers Essay: Obamacare: The Right Wing's Alamo
- Republicans are their own worst enemy on Obamacare. Here's proof. WaPo
- House Republicans No-Show At Private Obamacare Briefing They Demanded
- Mitt Romney Still Gets Mad When You Compare Obamacare to Romneycare
- UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'—The slippery slope has come. Everyone can be labeled a terrorist.
- UK government reaction to NSA leaks eroding freedom, rights groups warn—"Coalition of organisations says Cameron's response has damaged UK's reputation for freedom of expression."
- Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection—"NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows."
- The Google File System makes NSA's hack blatantly illegal and they know it
- Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance—"The NSA gathers intelligence to keep America safe. But leaked documents reveal the NSA's dark side – and show an agency intent on exploiting the digital revolution to the full."
- British man charged with hacking US Army and Nasa computer systems—"A 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, Nasa and other federal agencies."
- 12-year-old boy admits to hacking government sites for Anonymous—"[T]he boy testified that he traded information to members of Anonymous in exchange for videogames."
- iOS apps can be hijacked to show fraudulent content and intercept data—"Some 10,000 titles in Apple's App Store may be susceptible to redirection hack."
- Adobe hack much worse than reported, hits 38 million passwords and Photoshop source code
- Chinese appliances are shipping with malware-distributing WiFi chips
